526 Episodes

  1. 1st December 1934: Assassination of Sergei Kirov, one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet Communist Party

    Published: 1/12/2025

  2. 30th November 1982: Michael Jackson releases Thriller, the best-selling album of all time

    Published: 30/11/2025

  3. 29th November 1850: The Declaration of Olmütz signed by Prussia and Austria

    Published: 29/11/2025

  4. 28th November 1660: The Royal Society founded at Gresham College in London by a group of notable natural philosophers

    Published: 28/11/2025

  5. 27th November 1809: The Berners Street hoax causes chaos in central London

    Published: 27/11/2025

  6. 26th November 1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings

    Published: 26/11/2025

  7. 25th November 1940: Nikolai Yezhov, former head of the Soviet secret police, executed in Moscow

    Published: 25/11/2025

  8. 24th November 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, considered by many to be the foundation of evolutionary biology

    Published: 24/11/2025

  9. 23rd November 1450: Ottoman forces abandon the First Siege of Krujë, after being unable to defeat Skanderbeg’s forces

    Published: 23/11/2025

  10. 22nd November 1987: Max Headroom signal hijacking takes control of two Chicago television stations

    Published: 22/11/2025

  11. 21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182

    Published: 21/11/2025

  12. 20th November 1945: The first of the Nuremberg Trials begin in the aftermath of the Second World War

    Published: 20/11/2025

  13. 19th November 2006: Nintendo release the Wii console that includes motion-sensing technology

    Published: 19/11/2025

  14. 18th November 1916: Battle of the Somme ends with a German withdrawal

    Published: 18/11/2025

  15. 17th November 1903: The Bolshevik-Menshevik split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

    Published: 17/11/2025

  16. 16th November 1938: Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann synthesizes lysergic acid diethylamide, later known as LSD

    Published: 16/11/2025

  17. 15th November 1969: 500,000 people march on Washington in the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam

    Published: 15/11/2025

  18. 14th November 1990: Margaret Thatcher’s fifteen year leadership of the British Conservative Party challenged by Michael Heseltine

    Published: 14/11/2025

  19. 13th November 1833: Great Meteor Storm brings tens of thousands of meteors per hour to the North America sky

    Published: 13/11/2025

  20. 12th November 1990: The World Wide Web formally proposed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee

    Published: 12/11/2025

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The 'on this day in history' podcast, with a new episode every single day. Featuring historical events that range from the Roman Empire to the World Wide Web, HistoryPod proves that there is always something to be remembered 'on this day'. Written and presented by Scott Allsop, creator of the award-winning www.mrallsophistory.com

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